Ernie Orsatti

He played for the 1925 Cedar Rapids Bunnies, with whom he batted .347 and hit 6 home runs.

[1] After Orsatti had a mediocre season in 1935, the Cardinals were prepared to relegate him to their minor-league club in Rochester.

One of his children, Ernie F. Orsatti, became a famous stunt man and actor, best known for his free fall into a skylight in The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and as a hero firefighter hanging on to a scenic elevator in The Towering Inferno (1974).

"[4] He also owned a floral and oddity shop with his brothers-in-law and received royalties on the sales of candy bars in Southern California movie theaters.

[4] Orsatti died in 1968 in Canoga Park, California four days shy of his 66th birthday.

Orsatti on the Minneapolis Millers